Install automysqlbackup

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Introduction

AutoMySQLBackup with a basic configuration will create Daily, Weekly and Monthly backups of one or more of your MySQL databases from one or more of your MySQL servers.

Requirements

• Ubuntu server
• MySQL

Installation

First create the backup folder.

sudo mkdir /var/backups/mysql

Install the latest version of automysqlbackup from the official website.

sudo mkdir /usr/local/src/automysqlbackup
cd /usr/local/src/automysqlbackup
sudo wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/automysqlbackup/AutoMySQLBackup/AutoMySQLBackup%20VER%203.0/automysqlbackup-v3.0_rc6.tar.gz
sudo tar xvzf automysqlbackup-v3.0_rc6.tar.gz
sudo ./install.sh

Answer the install wizard as showed below.

global configuration diectory: default
directory for the executable: default

Add read permissios for all in the config folder.

cd /etc/automysqlbackup
sudo chmod a+r ./*

Update the automysqlbackup config file.

sudo vi /etc/automysqlbackup/automysqlbackup.conf

Set credentials and update the backup path.

# Username to access the MySQL server e.g. dbuser
CONFIG_mysql_dump_username='root'

# Password to access the MySQL server e.g. password
CONFIG_mysql_dump_password='[password]'

# Backup directory location e.g /backups
CONFIG_backup_dir='/var/backups/mysql'

Unlock the latest backup in order to make backups for third party programs available

# Store an additional copy of the latest backup to a standard
# location so it can be downloaded by third party scripts.
CONFIG_mysql_dump_latest='yes'

Let’s schedule the backup job by adding a daily cron script.

sudo vi /etc/cron.daily/automysqlbackup

With the following content.

#!/bin/sh

/usr/local/bin/automysqlbackup /etc/automysqlbackup/automysqlbackup.conf

chown root.root /var/backup/mysql* -R
sudo chmod -R a-x+X /var/backup/mysql

Enable execution of the script for the owner.

sudo chmod o+x /etc/cron.daily/automysqlbackup

You can run the backup script manually.

cd /etc/cron.daily
sudo ./automysqlbackup

Checkout the backup folder.

cd /var//backup/mysql

Source

How To Backup MySQL Databases on an Ubuntu VPS by Digital Ocean
How to back up MySQL databases using AutoMySQLBackup by A2 hosting automysqlbackup website